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Brought to you by the Architects’ Journal. AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman and co-host Rachael Owens talk to changemakers and innovators who are transforming architecture by designing in ways that respect planetary boundaries. Nominated for Audio Content of the Year at the PPA Awards 2025.Show notes & more info here: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/podcasts

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Recent Episodes
  • Material Cultures' Summer Islam: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products’
    Feb 26, 2025 – 53:27
  • ‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’
    Feb 12, 2025 – 46:41
  • Tara Gbolade: ‘It’s unsustainable for small practices not to upskill’
    Jan 29, 2025 – 42:37
  • ‘Even a small practice can push the boundaries of reuse’ – Brisco Loran
    Dec 11, 2024 – 43:37
  • IF_DO’s Sarah Castle: ‘People become the project’
    Nov 27, 2024 – 42:41
  • Chipperfield’s MC Piccinelli on how retrofit can enhance creativity
    Nov 13, 2024 – 43:49
  • Why earth is the ultimate circular material
    May 23, 2024 – 42:30
  • Vinu Daniel on transforming mud and waste into architecture
    May 8, 2024 – 40:22
  • Carmody Groarke’s Sian Ricketts on making bricks from waste
    Apr 24, 2024 – 26:32
  • AKTII’s David Watson on how to reduce the environmental impacts of brick
    Apr 10, 2024 – 42:45
  • ‘Over-specification of concrete is an industry addiction’
    Mar 27, 2024 – 38:47
  • Henning Larsen’s Martha Lewis on how to screen materials for both chemicals and carbon
    Mar 13, 2024 – 38:20
  • ‘I’m no longer the wood weirdo,’ says Andrew Waugh
    Dec 14, 2023 – 47:21
  • The Public Practice associates driving retrofit and net zero in the public sector
    Nov 29, 2023 – 37:26
  • Je Ahn on setting up Studio Weave and working with found materials
    Nov 8, 2023 – 42:25
  • Material passports and Architects Declare four years on
    Oct 24, 2023 – 32:00
  • Architects must re-educate themselves on timber sourcing
    Oct 12, 2023 – 42:35
  • Architype’s Ann-Marie Fallon: ‘Net Zero has almost lost its meaning’
    Sep 27, 2023 – 40:13
  • ‘We apologise for designing buildings that exploit the planet’
    Jul 26, 2023 – 21:16
  • Chinese architect Xu Tiantian on revitalising rural villages
    Dec 14, 2022 – 42:04
  • Historic England’s Morwenna Slade on why a ‘fabric first’ approach must be used with caution in heritage buildings
    Nov 30, 2022 – 41:58
  • Adapting conservation area guidance for climate emergency
    Nov 16, 2022 – 41:36
  • Balancing heritage and climate urgency in listed buildings
    Nov 2, 2022 – 39:18
  • Educators Sofie Pelsmakers and Cíaran Malik on teaching climate literate design
    Oct 19, 2022 – 37:42
  • The trade-off between ventilation and airtightness in the post-pandemic world
    Oct 5, 2022 – 41:54
  • Why architectural education needs radical reform
    Sep 21, 2022 – 42:25
  • Danish architect Lone Feifer on ‘absolute’ sustainability
    Sep 7, 2022 – 39:42
  • Hawkins\Brown’s Louisa Bowles on what net zero actually means
    Aug 3, 2022 – 46:47
  • Editional Studio on persuading domestic clients to build less and retrofit more
    Jul 11, 2022 – 45:46
  • Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
    Jun 28, 2022 – 34:23
  • ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
    Jun 10, 2022 – 40:00
  • John Christophers on his zero carbon home, which generates a 40% energy surplus
    May 26, 2022 – 48:39
  • Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
    May 11, 2022 – 42:24
  • Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
    Apr 27, 2022 – 46:05
  • AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling, concrete innovations and Bloomberg’s embodied carbon
    Apr 5, 2022 – 54:01
  • Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum on why the climate crisis is not a north-south problem
    Mar 21, 2022 – 43:33
  • Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism
    Mar 1, 2022 – 42:00
  • How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
    Feb 9, 2022 – 42:54
  • Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials – with Dominique Gauzin-Müller
    Jan 26, 2022 – 36:13
  • Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition and Kat Scott on the Architects Declare Practice Guide
    Dec 16, 2021 – 46:10
  • Rachel Hoolahan on material passports for retrofit
    Dec 1, 2021 – 41:15
  • Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene
    Nov 17, 2021 – 32:57
  • COP26: Glasgow‘s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN‘s COP26 fringe activism
    Nov 2, 2021 – 28:15
  • COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate resilient public realm
    Oct 21, 2021 – 35:04
  • RIBA Climate Special with Simon Allford and Gary Clark
    Oct 5, 2021 – 41:19
  • The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity
    Aug 18, 2021 – 37:10
  • Rewilding expert Isabella Tree on why a 3,500-home development must be stopped
    Jul 27, 2021 – 45:45
  • Thamesmead Waterfront and Home of 2030, two competitions wins where ‘landscape is the glue’
    Jul 8, 2021 – 39:06
  • Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on why trees matter, urban forestry and greening our cities
    Jun 23, 2021 – 43:59
  • Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy and climate
    Jun 10, 2021 – 41:19
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